Saturday, October 31, 2009

Due to rain in the forecast, we decided to break with tradition and set up the display the day before Halloween. Got a bunch of photos before a light rain started to fall around midnight. Bean and I wished each other a Happy Halloween as we stood there listening to the tapping on the leaves. Then we put the props into the garage and drove home. If the haunt gets rained out tonight, it'll be comforting to know that the display was technically up and running on Halloween (and during the witching hour). Cool.

That's the Fourth Witch sitting in the shadows. A prop costume I made to hand out candy.

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Wonderful! Happy Halloween you two, hope the weather works out. Ours got some 24 hour rain and the witch broke an arm, good 1st effort, its on for next year. I definitely will need some advice on better prop construction. Thanks for inspiring me to get creative.

Trick or Treater:Gasp!!!! (Picking jaw up off the ground) Whoa, Awesome!!!! Fleeing. Moundshroud would be so Proud. I'm saying the rain chant for you. Look on the bright side you'll have lots of candy either way :D Happy Halloween.

Happy Halloween! That looks amazing. It's already lightly raining here, most of my cornstalks I'm using this year are already messed up from all the rain and wind, and my paper mache' props are soggy but we're going to try to make the most of it. Hopefully, it'll clear up sometime today.

Happy Halloween to you two!! I LOOOVE it love it love it wish I could see it in person!! Beautiful! Where ARE you guys by the way???It's rain forecasted where I am, too, in Concord NC. Its a beautiful and foggy Halloween morning so far!! Have fun!!!!Brandi

Happy Halloween Rot and Bean! This haunt is ABSOLUTLY the greatest and darkest I have seen. Hope the rain holds off for everybody you and everybody else. Suppose to rain here so outside stuff is already down.

Happy halloween all, though in a day late writing so. Our haunt was a disaster, well just the party. Everything was running had to keep re-lighting a few candles due to the rain (NC here). The halloween bon fire was covered with a massive pool cover on fri when i realized that the rain was a coming. Last night, the rain came, but we had our fire. At 11pm it was all but extinguished due to the rain, all in all we had fun, and had some trick-r-treaters spite the rain. Great setup as usual again Rot. I cant wait to see all the pics!

Looks like your best year ever. Thanks for all you do and for sharing it. You inspired me to do more this year (and better) than in the past. As a result, I had a nice feeling of accomplishment and fun too.

In the Shenandoah Valley, we actually had a nice evening with looming clouds. Around 10:00 pm the rain started and drizzled all night. Nice to know the pumpkins were out there with a light nourishing rain and their candles would quietly expire some time in the night.

Loving it. I especially like that it is strictly orange and black.Do you ever have kids that are too scared to come up and get candy? Or are there parents that keep their kids away, because your work is so realistic and scary?

Every year we get more and more kids that cry and refuse to come up for candy. The rain prevented us from seeing how kids would have reacted to the Corn Witch prop costume, but I'm thinking it would have given some of the little ones nightmares : )

It was creeping US out when my brother was inside moving the head around.